Off to London to Tempt Scottie and Simon

Well, those of you who aren’t fans of my “food feed” (ha! get it?) will be getting a nearly two week reprieve.

Greg and I are hopping a flight to London today where I’ll be doing a half day “Blogging for Business” training session on the tail end of SES London. On Saturday, we’ll catch another flight to Rome, where we’ll spend a week working our way up through Tuscany and the Cinque Terre before we fly out of Milan and back to London for another night.

Simon and Scottie are already over there and I hear word that food has been flowing. In fact, Simon told me they had 15 plates of food for  4 people.

I was tempted to take Scottie a big dose of my homemade peanut butter fudge, since I know she loves it, but lucky for her we’re packing light and my bag is already at the 13 pound limit.

Ironically, I was watching last night’s episode of “The Biggest Loser” and it was the week where everyone goes home to visit their families. Some fell off the wagon, some stayed true to their long-term goals and ended up losing more weight than ever. While I wouldn’t wish a few pounds on any of the contestants (ok, maybe a little), I have decided I can enjoy London and Italy just fine without eating things that are bad for me.

I’ve packed my pedometer (10,000 steps = 400 calories burned) and will use the last two weeks of meticulous calorie, fat, carb, fiber and protein counting to make good food choices. No daily posts, but I will still take a picture of everything I eat. When I get back, I’ll have Flickr spit out a collage of all the food and will wrap it up in one posting.

The good news is, I’m down a pound so far this week, which brings my total to 7 pounds for the contest. Here’s hoping I can walk off another pound or two despite being in Italy surrounded by fresh mozzerella, olive oil and pasta.